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0000-0002-8137-2513
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Australian National University
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UNSW Sydney
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Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2010
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-09-2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 26-06-2014
DOI: 10.1017/TRN.2014.4
Abstract: Islamic finance has been growing significantly across the globe. In Southeast Asia, interest in Islamic finance and its growth is significant in Malaysia. Compared with Malaysia, in Indonesia, however, the largest Muslim population country where an Islamic resurgence has been widely taking place, the growth of Islamic banks remains slower and on a smaller scale. Furthermore, recent research shows that Islamic piety does not systematically translate into the use of Islamic banks among middle-class Indonesians. Against these findings, this article highlights a relatively understudied Islamic finance institution, Islamic Savings and Credit Cooperatives, in Indonesia commonly known as Baitul Maal wat Tamwil (BMT). The BMT sector is separate from the banking sector and as such has received little scholarly attention as part of Islamic finance in Indonesia. The number of the BMTs in Indonesia has increased significantly since the 1990s and they are grass-roots Islamic financial institutions offering financial services to relatively small-scale traders in urban areas. Based on data from anthropological research in Central Java, this article argues that Islamic propagation is an important element among the BMT founders and workers. They perceive their economic activities as Islamic propagation by deeds ( dakwah bil hal ) to achieve social justice.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-07-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-02-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-04-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1163/15685314-04206003
Abstract: Although religious ersity is legally supported in Indonesia, incidents of attacks on religious minorities and anxiety towards the practice of religious pluralism have continued to plague the country. This paper will analyse factors limiting the practice of religious ersity in post-Suharto Indonesia with a focus on two types of important grass-roots religious institutions. The first type is religious philanthropic organizations, which provide social services for natural disaster victims and the poor. The second type of religious institution is traditional Islamic schools known as pesantren salaf , one of most the important educational institutions for Islamic scholars. This paper will show that increased religiosity has contributed to the growth of socially-engaged religious organizations being used to address social problems, but these religious institutions are naturally developing their operational links within their own religious affiliations and communication beyond their religion is restricted because of mutual anxiety. This paper will also examine the challenge presented by traditional Islamic educational institutions. In order to protect Islam from secularism, these institutions are promoting theologically conservative Islamic teachings that curtail the practice of religious ersity at the grassroots level. Our case studies show that religious education has unintentionally limited the development of religious ersity in Indonesia.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2023
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